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MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images)When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey,…
BBC News, Nairobi
AFP/Getty ImagesKenya has been hit by a recent wave of repression, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of…
Actor Brad Pitt’s home in Los Angeles has been ransacked by a trio of thieves.
Three suspects broke into the home in the Los Feliz late on Wednesday through a front window and “ransacked the location,” according to the Los Angeles Police…
Early on Thursday, the American Meteor Society received multiple reports of a fireball sighting over various Southeastern states, including Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Video from drivers in these states show a flashing light in the sky…
BBC News, Washington DC
Getty ImagesSenate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough may not be a household name, but the so-called referee of the Senate has found herself at the centre of a firestorm after she objected to several parts of US…
Dame Anna Wintour is stepping back as editor-in-chief of American Vogue after 37 years.
The British-born fashion magnate, 75, is leaving the role she has held longer than any other editor, but will retain senior positions at its publisher.
Dame…
Abbas Arahchi made the comments while visiting the national Iranian TV’s Glassy Building which was attacked in the recent Israeli regime’s aggression in Tehran on Thursday evening.
Araghchi said that the incumbent US president Donald Trump…
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted a Hamas police unit attempting to assert control over a market in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, a doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC.
Eyewitnesses said…
BBC South Caucasus correspondent
Getty ImagesA bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests,…
A large wildfire swept through the coastal towns of Palaia Fokaia and Thymari 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Athens, destroying homes and forcing evacuations as it neared the beach.
The flames erupted in low vegetation but quickly spread into…